Creating your wedding books

The wedding book is the most important and most tangible memento of your wedding.

Today, in the era of digital photography, and for several years now, the wedding book have been greatly developed.

In the past, wedding books were traditional pocket albums. The photographer would develop the photos and place them in chronological order within the album. There was no way to create a unique design and it made no difference if the photos were vertical or horizontal.

Modern technology has introduced digital albums/books, which allow the photographer to create a unique design for each couple. In addition to the high quality of printing and binding which have also developed over the years, we are also being offered great flexibility in design options and picture selection – both the wedding photographer and the couple.

Digital albums/books, contrary to popular belief, are not really digital. The only digital thing here is that the photos and the book's pages are being edited in a computer. The book pages are printed on hi quality photo paper (like the pictures that, until recently, we would send to the lab to be printed), glued and bound together in a professional photo lab. The result is an elegant, beautiful and durable wedding book of good quality.

The fact that the photos in the book are not glued one by one, as was done in the past, but are printed as one piece on the book's pages and bound together, is an important part of the book's resilience capacity. The book remains in good condition for many years and fulfills that for which it is intended - a beautiful memory to be preserved for future generations.

Another advantage for digitally designed books is that you can print numerous copies of the same book, in various sizes. All copies are printed in the same quality and accuracy of the original book. The best part is that the cost of the copies is slightly cheaper than the cost of the first book as there is no need for additional color calibrations for the development in the lab, the initial calibrations are used.

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Today's technology give us the option of creating truly unique and personalized books for couples, which they can treasure forever.

I offer my clients the option of selecting the photos themselves and take part in the creation of their wedding book, in a fast and simple procedure done on-line with a private gallery on my website. Once the photos have been selected, a simple click of the mouse will update me that the selection process has been finalized and I will start working on the design of the book.

Tips for selecting the wedding book photos

A standard digital book has 30 double pages (60 pages in all).

Technically, you can put all the wedding pictures in the book, however, the design would not be very good. The guiding principle is "less is more". If you put less pictures in the book, it will have a cleaner, more elegant look. The book will look better with several pages that have one big, special photo on them as opposed to pages with many smaller photos. (You can see some examples for that in the wedding books above).

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I recommend choosing no more than 150 photos for an book of 30 pages. This means an average of 5 photos per page (double page). For each page with one image, we get another page with 9.

Of course, the numbers are only a statistical matter. There are many various design options and page arrangements which I can play with, to create the perfect design for each couple.

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Choosing 150 photos out of a thousand wedding photos (sometimes more) can be a difficult task.

In addition to the photos of the bride and groom, there are family members and friends, beautiful and emotional moments, small details and atmosphere photos of the event and location (the ones which decorate the book) and much more. A difficult choice. Don't forget, you will receive ALL photos from the photographer, so choose wisely what you would like to see in your wedding book.

Your wedding book is a work of art, designed to capture your wedding day, the special moments and memories. I recommend choosing photos which bring to life the mood of the day, the atmosphere and the excitement. Candid photos are a great start, photos showing emotions (tears of joy is always beautiful!). Photos of the food and decor will always take the viewer back to the venue.